# Monitor Friends & Home Usage?
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [June 10, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742 "2015-06-10T11:49:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@stottm](https://forums.plex.tv/u/stottm)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/1 "2015-06-10T11:49:40Z")
Would like to see within Plex Web some statistics on usage by remote friends sharing a library as well as internal Plex Home usage. Some of us have bandwidth caps and would like to know if a friend is remotely binge watching. Would like to limit streaming use for external friends as well. Something like limiting them to a handle full of video streams per day including Sync.
It would be useful to collect the same statistics for Plex Home and perhaps add viewing limits as well. So for example the kids can't come home from school and watch 8 continuous hours of video.
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### Author:  [@Orionshock](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Orionshock)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/2 "2015-06-10T15:16:01Z")
All of these have been requested before in their own individual threads in this forum.
Please search through the forum and add your “like” to those posts. 🙂
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### Author:  [@AntiTrust](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AntiTrust)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/3 "2015-06-10T15:17:32Z")
Take a look at both PlexSentry and PlexWatch/PlexWatchWeb. I haven't used Sentry since there's no need for it in my case but PlexWatch is awesome for tracking how much is streamed from your server.
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### Author:  [@johnod1983](https://forums.plex.tv/u/johnod1983)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/4 "2015-06-10T17:55:40Z")
I use PlexWatch/PlexwatchWeb and agree they are good, but I agree with OP and would like to see this functionality rolled into the PMS baseline.
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### Author:  [@MikeG6.5](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MikeG6.5)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/5 "2015-06-10T20:43:40Z")
As OrionShock said, there are already requests for this functionality built into the Web App. I know I have one request for this type of tool, as well as other tools that provide some controls for the over-all system.
Here's the link to my request:
[https://forums.plex.tv/topic/146123-server-tools-whos-watching-what/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/146123-server-tools-whos-watching-what/)
There are other requests out there. You just "Like" the first post to show your support.
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### Author:  [@Orionshock](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Orionshock)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/6 "2015-06-11T03:52:54Z")
> Would like to see within Plex Web some statistics on usage by remote friends sharing a library as well as internal Plex Home usage.
[https://forums.plex.tv/topic/46451-very-popular-show-who-is-streaming-what-and-when/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/46451-very-popular-show-who-is-streaming-what-and-when/)
[https://forums.plex.tv/topic/146123-server-tools-whos-watching-what/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/146123-server-tools-whos-watching-what/)
> Some of us have bandwidth caps and would like to know if a friend is remotely binge watching. Would like to limit streaming use for external friends as well. Something like limiting them to a handle full of video streams per day including Sync.
[https://forums.plex.tv/topic/80857-popular-server-side-speed-limitscaps-for-sharedsubscribed-users/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/80857-popular-server-side-speed-limitscaps-for-sharedsubscribed-users/)
[https://forums.plex.tv/topic/146139-server-tools-kicking-a-user-or-stuck-client/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/146139-server-tools-kicking-a-user-or-stuck-client/)
> It would be useful to collect the same statistics for Plex Home and perhaps add viewing limits as well. So for example the kids can't come home from school and watch 8 continuous hours of video.
[https://forums.plex.tv/topic/46451-very-popular-show-who-is-streaming-what-and-when/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/46451-very-popular-show-who-is-streaming-what-and-when/)(also)
Tho I'll be honest in my forum searching i was not able to find a specific thread regarding limiting viewing/usage time for a given user, tho sources indicate that it was recommended as part of the Parental Controls/Plex Home Enhancements.
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However, for the time being I'm going to closing this thread to prevent vote splits on the various ideas.
If you disagree please send a PM :)
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/7 "2021-01-14T23:07:43Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (now playing, server dashboard, playback history)
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/monitor-friends-home-usage/105742/8 "2021-06-10T01:00:06Z")